March, 1947 "Truman
doctrine" - world divided between two "alternate ways of life".

February 1948 Communist
coup Czechoslovakia,

Truman - Soviet Union "a
growing menace to the very survival of freedom".

"domino
theory"

1948 US Nat'l Security
Council – USSR engaging US in a 'struggle for power, a 'cold war' in
which our national security is at stake - therefore, the US needs to undertake
a world-wide counteroffensive against Soviet-directed world
communism."

North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) 1949; Soviets Warsaw Pact.

1949, USSR nuclear
weapon

US diplomat, "This
is now a different world."

US civil defense
program.

backyard bomb shelter - Popular
Mechanics;

"How to Survive an
Atomic Bomb": "After an explosion, things are probably going to look
different when you get outside.If
the bomb hit within a mile & half of where you are, things are going to
look very different."

"duck &
cover" drills.

hydrogen bomb (H-bomb or
Super). Fusion;

Oppenheimer, "Hiroshima was a mistake & Nagasaki a
crime".

Edward Teller

Klaus Fuchs,

Military sponsored
research – Stanford, MIT;

1960s, MIT $200
million/year sponsored research contracts;

harder "to tell
whether MIT is a university with many government research labs appended to it,
or a cluster of government labs with a very good educational institution
attached."